Since 1970, Roger Palmer has produced poetry, paintings,
installations, and a large body of drawings and works on paper.
His installations of drawings and artifacts have been shown in
Diverseworks in Houston (solo and group shows); NEXUS
in Atlanta; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in
Winston-Salem, NC; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL.;
Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL; Tampa Museum of Art; and
Ringling (FL) Museum of Art, which purchased an installation
for their permanent collection. He has received a regional NEA
Grant, two Florida Individual Artists grants, as well as grants to
do installations at Miami Waves Film Festival, Nexus, and The
Artists' Alliance in Tampa, FL. He participated in a NEA funded
collaborative performance work, "Smarter than Dogs", and a
collaborative project with PWA’s which traveled to Miami and
Orlando. He has self-published 3 books, one of which ( The
Inheritance and Other Stories ") is archived at Franklin Furnace,
NYC and has had poetry and/or images published in Sonoma
Review (U. of Arizona), the Journal of the NEA, and Tabloid
Magazine.

In 2008, he had a solo show “In Dog Light” at the University of
South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; solo shows at Marcia
Wood Gallery in Atlanta and Tempus Projects in Tampa;
and was in “Dark Poets”, a six person show at Maryland Institute
College of Art’s Decker Gallery: “Bright and White” at Mindy
Solomon Gallery in St. Petersburg, FL; and “Freaks”, a group
show at Privateer Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Roger divides his time between New York and Tampa.